grendel

I usually bring a few along to the meets with proceeds going to the forum, they come in at £5 each which goes to forum funds, I have no idea what they would cost to post, if you want one pm me your address and I will send you one for £5 and find out the postage cost at the same time for future purchases.

what - like these ones I 3D print?

yes, it is the difference between a decent roastie and a perfect roastie, my daughter uses the sprays. my parents always had a pot in the fridge full of dripping, every week the joint was roasted in it on a sunday, and then it was put back in the pot, mid week the remains of the roast went to become a soup with the settled out stock at the bottom of the dripping pot added. (some of the stock also went into the gravy. its my guess that what was in that pot was a mix of beef dripping and pork dripping (and new lard to make up any shortfall).

for low fat roasties, I have added the oil at the point of shaking the pan, so it infuses in the fluffy bits round the edges, then used a non stick sheet on the baking tray, this way you control the amount of oil and still get a decent roastie.

tonight was the construction of a slotted bracket to brace that steering arm.

well I finally got to watch, and its pretty much the same method I use for roasties, but maybe I have learned a few tricks. I tended to use a lot less oil.

I am sure their neighbours contributed the most.

They come in different sizes so check what wattage you need and make sure the one you get covers that, I have some and you set the voltage you require out.

today the motor was fixed down and tweaking began. well there we are - consumption down to about 1A, the cv joint (from a model car) the bit sticking up was a steering arm, I will make up a bracket from the bulkhead to this to allow me to fine tune the angle of the joint for the lowest resistance. I also found a tiny bit of packing under the stern tube locks this in place and reduces the current consumption. also seen here is the 35mm prop.

looks good, I hope to watch this tonight to see if there is anything I can do to improve my roasties, by the looks of it I already do some of the steps in the quick flick through I did earlier

ok so I havent left for work yet, but I have had a quick look, it should be visible now, but its quite an old category, with no posts for a few years, I will ask to see if there was a reason behind this.

I will have a look when I get to work, if nobody else has figured it out by then

I know we have 2 at work, one in one building, and one in the warehouse - a lot of businesses do have them nowadays, so its always worth asking also most companies will have a first aider who may know how to use one. though from the general first aid course every employee does where I work we have been told how easy they are to use, as they basically tell you what to do.

I know vices, and now stools in the workshop, its no wonder I get filthy when working in there.

fixing in the wood supports for the motor and half shaft.

picture of the new feet on my stools

with care dissasembling you should be able to re- use the bolt part with one of the above bearings, I would imagine the bolt part could be tapped through the bearings in the wheel and then cleaned up and put into the new bearing roller.

they do them with v grooves as well - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Precision-Acetal-Pulley-Wheel-with-90-V-groove-Guiding-Rail-Sliding-Mechanism-/171950297737

these have the bolt. https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/362055875007?chn=ps&dispItem=1&adgroupid=43106429403&rlsatarget=pla-325869832768&abcId=1128926&adtype=pla&merchantid=10075494&poi=&googleloc=1006602&device=c&campaignid=857233083&crdt=0 this has a 10mm hole. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/35mmx10mmx11mm-Nylon-U-Groove-Bearing-Pulley-Sliding-Converyor-Wheel-White/302422937856?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908110712%26meid%3D7a00de3357ba43d592f68a8f2cc7c295%26pid%3D100677%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D362055875007&_trksid=p2385738.c100677.m4598

looking at them, it would appear that if you undo the nut and take the whole thing off, the nylon bit would just slide off the nut end. looks like the inside should look something like this - http://www.vxb.com/Round-Nylon-Pulley-U-Groove-Track-Bearing-BU0832-p/8x32-ugroove-pulley-bearing.htm these are a bit bigger diameter - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8-50-12mm-Pulley-Plastic-Rope-Wheel-Round-Sealed-Accessories-Nylon-Guide-Rail-/311899805255 these dont have the groove http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bathroom-Nylon-Pulley-Shield-Ball-Bearings-Wheel-Roller-Choose-Size-/361864522663 though these may be spot on - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/U-V-Grooved-Ball-Bearings-Metal-Shield-Nylon-Pulley-Wheels-Wire-Guide-Roller-/361777816322

OOh I think I might know someone, a lot depends on the load they will need to take, if they are just guides, then they should be fine

parkside tools are quite good, I too have a good selection of them.

thats one metabo (getting old now with a switch that is starting to get dodgy- and is no longer available - 2 powerbase (with lead acid batteries- on their last legs), 2 maplin drill and 1 right - a makita

that reminds me - I need to go get my big pillar drill from my mother in laws garage, and some of my other large vices (no not those vices - the ones used for holding things in the workshop ( hmm well I suppose some of those other vices could do that too)). I am already suffering from Timbo's Tardis problem, I am running out of space to put my tools, now I am gathering them back into the fold - still if I tidy the other half of the conservatory out, I could expand into there (at least this has allowed the indoor kitchen table model shop to be used for the less messy jobs that are best done inside in the warm). So small tool storage solutions are the next order of business, somewhere to store my reamers. Now this workshop is up and running things will get shunted around to improve the storage, and then labelled so I can find things.I have a whole lot of storage tubs, but need to find a place they can be stacked, & labelled so access is easy (here I am thinking of a framework that the tubs can slide into so I dont have to unstack them to get to one. I already have a stack of 3 building up (one for brass, one for aluminium, and one for steel materials) you can see some of the tubs sitting under the bench and on a stool in some of the pictures above. I am thinking that when the big pillar drill arrives, it will replace the trolley in the corner (it will have castors added) and provide some storage underneath too, as well as maybe space alongside, the big drill is not a full floor standing one, but needs a low bench to bring the table to a comfortable height (it probably will need stripping down and de-rusting too).

rhubarb crumble and custard...